Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

Young children, uncorrupted by the world's evils. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes A Date with Rosie Palms Running Gag Adorkable The Lancer Greater-Scope Villain World of Ham The Starscream Cluster F-Bomb After the End Major Injury Underreaction Accidental Misnaming Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Ambiguously Gay Age Lift Together in Death Instant Death Bullet From Nobody to Nightmare Victoria's Secret Compartment Needs Wiki Magic Love Shut Up, Hannibal! Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Badass Longcoat Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Heroic Sacrifice Corrupt Corporate Executive Dark and Troubled Past Big Bad Continuity Nod Catch-Phrase Sports Stories Damsel in Distress MacGuffin Ascended Extra As Long as It Sounds Foreign Blood Knight Villain Song Hate Sink You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Gone Horribly Right Berserk Button folderlabel Kill 'em All Vampire Fiction Eureka Moment Foil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold "Shaggy Dog" Story Married to the Job Eiffel Tower Effect Death of a Child Call-Forward Stylistic Suck Artistic License – Biology Vomit Discretion Shot Kick the Son of a Bitch Dull Surprise Bond One-Liner Gender Flip Bait-and-Switch Deliberate Values Dissonance Wounded Gazelle Gambit No Ending Men Are the Expendable Gender Superhero Accidental Murder Australian Movies Depraved Bisexual Demoted to Extra Becoming the Mask Bury Your Gays Dramatic Irony Playing Gertrude All Men Are Perverts Those Wacky Nazis Yandere Killed Mid-Sentence Improvised Weapon Domestic Abuse Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Riddle for the Ages Public Domain Feature Films Up to Eleven Fat Bastard Anti-Villain Scary Black Man The Sociopath Dramedy No Celebrities Were Harmed Put on a Bus Shoot the Shaggy Dog Properly Paranoid Body Horror The Stoic Self-Deprecation Even Evil Has Standards Last-Name Basis Redshirt Army Artistic License – Physics Better to Die than Be Killed Naïve Newcomer Laughing Mad Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Voiceless Boom, Headshot! Affably Evil Dark Reprise Improbable Aiming Skills Neck Snap Shower Scene Leitmotif Scare Chord Bavarian Fire Drill The Chick Imagine Spot Black Best Friend Film Noir Index Earn Your Happy Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Biopic Stealth Hi/Bye Moment Killer Fanservice Extra Ungrateful Bastard Non-Indicative Name Pragmatic Adaptation Dissonant Serenity Destination Defenestration Parental Substitute Deal with the Devil Five-Man Band Composite Character An Axe to Grind Stock Footage Well-Intentioned Extremist Thriller Crapsack World From Bad to Worse Sadistic Choice Papa Wolf Country Matters Dark Action Girl Pretty Little Headshots Crucified Hero Shot Historical Hero Upgrade Darker and Edgier Fanservice The Mafia Demonic Possession Enemy Mine Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pay Evil unto Evil Cat Scare Face–Heel Turn Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Documentary I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Hypocrite Blonde, Brunette, Redhead La Résistance Star-Crossed Lovers Amoral Attorney Unresolved Sexual Tension Sassy Black Woman Whole Plot Reference Dirty Old Man The Atoner Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ship Tease Totally Radical For Want of a Nail Unreliable Narrator Ripped from the Headlines Bilingual Bonus Hollywood Darkness Plucky Comic Relief Not Using the "Z" Word Made of Explodium The Ace Artistic License – Military Did Not Get the Girl Red Herring Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Stalker with a Crush Brick Joke Arranged Marriage Shown Their Work Breaking the Fourth Wall You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Gorn Nice Guy Important Haircut Once More, with Clarity! Kubrick Stare Lighter and Softer Cool Car Awesome, but Impractical Rule of Symbolism Fate Worse than Death The Big Guy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Large Ham Canadian Movies Retirony Heroic BSoD Expy The Ghost Intrepid Reporter Asshole Victim Soft Glass Chiaroscuro Hong Kong Films Brainless Beauty Beard of Evil Book-Ends Sequel Escalation Big "NO!" Anachronism Stew The '90s Have a Gay Old Time Bad Boss Skewed Priorities Bond Villain Stupidity Humiliation Conga Works Set in World War II Air-Vent Passageway Adults Are Useless My Greatest Failure Extreme Doormat Rasputinian Death Visual Pun She's Got Legs Politically Incorrect Villain Italian Films Crazy-Prepared Vitriolic Best Buds Random Events Plot Curse Cut Short Love at First Sight Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Match Cut Closed Circle Authority Equals Asskicking The Cameo Neck Lift Pimped-Out Dress Narrator Punny Name Redemption Equals Death Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Homage Title Drop Grievous Bottley Harm Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Big Damn Heroes A Father to His Men Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Line-of-Sight Name Catapult Nightmare More Dakka German Films The Vamp What Happened to the Mouse? Interrupted Suicide Artistic License – History Leaning on the Fourth Wall Tranquil Fury Monumental Damage Rule of Three Kill It with Fire Evil Brit Fatal Flaw Broken Pedestal Covers Always Lie Slashed Throat Roaring Rampage of Revenge Grey and Gray Morality Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane You Have Failed Me '80s Hair Mundane Made Awesome Bowdlerise Epic Fail All There in the Script Male Gaze All There in the Manual Psychopathic Manchild Screw This, I'm Outta Here! No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Attempted Rape Adapted Out Precision F-Strike Unusually Uninteresting Sight Getting Crap Past the Radar Chewing the Scenery Chekhov's Gun Improbable Weapon User Sci-Fi Horror French Films Drill Sergeant Nasty Villain Opening Scene The Musical Cat Fight Disney Death Say My Name Mr. Fanservice Paper-Thin Disguise Dirty Cop Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Cassandra Truth Police are Useless Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Wrong Genre Savvy Author Avatar No OSHA Compliance Eagleland Disappeared Dad Film Noir Madness Mantra Dying Moment of Awesome Dual Wielding Handicapped Badass Early-Bird Cameo Didn't Think This Through Adaptation Expansion Kids Are Cruel Manic Pixie Dream Girl Overprotective Dad Screw the Rules, I Have Money! True Companions Card-Carrying Villain Crazy Jealous Guy Red Right Hand Femme Fatale Tempting Fate The Power of Love Abhorrent Admirer Obviously Evil Really Gets Around Aside Glance Insistent Terminology Epic Movie Gainax Ending Villainous Breakdown Christmas Movies Index Action Survivor Poor Communication Kills Captain Obvious Bullying a Dragon Motor Mouth Nothing Is Scarier Famous Last Words Corpsing Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Calling the Old Man Out Eye Scream Award-Bait Song Product Placement Vomit Indiscretion Shot One-Man Army Rule of Funny Plot Hole The X of Y Deliberately Monochrome Captain Ersatz Film Series Big Fancy House Worthy Opponent Gilligan Cut Spiritual Successor Translation Convention Villain Protagonist Implacable Man Never My Fault Death by Sex Big-Bad Ensemble A God Am I Twist Ending Unwitting Instigator of Doom Black Dude Dies First The Stinger Fish out of Water Almost Kiss Bloody Hilarious No Antagonist Flashback Downer Ending Broken Bird Horror Films Romantic Comedy Creative Closing Credits Good Is Not Nice Police Brutality Meet Cute Those Two Bad Guys Re-Cut Market-Based Title Mr. Exposition Very Loosely Based on a True Story Faking the Dead Stuff Blowing Up Mood Whiplash Artistic License – Gun Safety Mythology Gag Cold-Blooded Torture Wretched Hive Adaptational Badass Romantic False Lead Flipping the Bird Laser-Guided Karma Small Name, Big Ego Driven to Suicide Adaptation Name Change Badass Normal Parental Neglect Truth in Television Would Hurt a Child Arch-Enemy Soundtrack Dissonance Anguished Declaration of Love Evil Plan Man on Fire Distracted by the Sexy Genre Shift Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Half the Man He Used to Be The Remake Wham Shot Hollywood Law Advertised Extra Department of Redundancy Department Foregone Conclusion Gold Digger Irony Bad "Bad Acting" Get Out! Drowning My Sorrows BFG Curb-Stomp Battle Determinator The Mole Ax-Crazy Sanity Slippage Anachronic Order Fingore NO INDOOR VOICE Bloodless Carnage Chekhov's Skill Mercy Kill Children Are Innocent Jerk Jock Only One Name Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Slap-Slap-Kiss Cool Old Lady Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Smoking Is Cool Punch-Clock Villain Training Montage No Name Given Does Not Like Shoes Evil-Detecting Dog Offscreen Moment of Awesome Unusual Euphemism Establishing Character Moment "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil Laugh Jitter Cam Pragmatic Villainy Bland-Name Product Shipper on Deck Disney Villain Death Oh, Crap! Antagonist Title Batman Gambit Every Car Is a Pinto Offscreen Teleportation Music Stories Intergenerational Friendship Rated M for Manly Overly Long Gag O.O.C. Is Serious Business I Did What I Had to Do Russian Films The Dragon Red Eyes, Take Warning The Alleged Car Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Double-Meaning Title And Starring Cool Guns Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Grandpa Due to the Dead Break the Cutie Hope Spot Central Theme Refuge in Audacity Male Frontal Nudity You Killed My Father Character Development Adaptation Distillation Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Evil Is Hammy The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Hair-Trigger Temper Danny Peary Cult Movies List Rape as Drama Heel Realization The Place Here We Go Again! Retired Badass Sacrificial Lion Easily Forgiven Suddenly SHOUTING! Everyone Has Standards Love Triangle Determinator aka: The Determinator Betty and Veronica An Aesop Cloudcuckoolander Sexy Discretion Shot Ghost Fiction Scenery Porn Arc Words Knight Templar War Is Hell Action Girl The '70s Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Obfuscating Stupidity Those Two Guys Woman Scorned Chase Scene Beta Couple Decoy Protagonist An Arm and a Leg The Bully Same Language Dub Disproportionate Retribution Undying Loyalty No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Celebrity Paradox Black and Gray Morality Freudian Excuse He Who Fights Monsters Blood from the Mouth Heterosexual Life-Partners Parental Abandonment Immune to Bullets The Cavalry Guile Hero Stealth Pun Off with His Head! Animal Title Index Dropped a Bridge on Him Mad Scientist Conspicuous CG Butt-Monkey Naked People Are Funny Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Chekhov's Gunman Pretty in Mink Setting Update Not So Different Fourth Date Marriage Back from the Dead Reality Is Unrealistic It's All About Me Frame-Up Amusing Injuries Hooker with a Heart of Gold Darkest Hour Big Applesauce Wham Line Storming the Castle Actor Allusion Early Installment Weirdness Cool Shades Pyrrhic Victory Never Trust a Trailer timeperiod Break the Haughty Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Death by Irony What You Are in the Dark Contrived Coincidence Faux Affably Evil My God, What Have I Done? Eldritch Abomination Developing Doomed Characters Reality Ensues My Beloved Smother Ominous Latin Chanting No-Sell As Himself Retcon Belligerent Sexual Tension Karmic Death Military and Warfare Films The Chessmaster Daddy's Girl Suspiciously Specific Denial Facial Horror Only Known by Their Nickname Your Cheating Heart Mighty Whitey Evil Sounds Deep Big Bad Duumvirate Your Head A-Splode Insane Troll Logic Broken Aesop Took a Level in Badass Silence Is Golden Canon Foreigner Creator Cameo Kick the Dog Idiot Ball Exact Words Shell-Shocked Veteran The Alcoholic Dwindling Party Drives Like Crazy Creepy Child The Hero Dies Peek-a-Boo Corpse Names to Run Away from Really Fast Super Strength Manly Tears Maybe Ever After Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sinister Minister Bound and Gagged Would Hit a Girl Ambiguous Disorder Badass Boast Black Comedy Rape Only a Flesh Wound In Name Only Vacation Films Meaningful Echo Be Careful What You Wish For The Reveal Comically Missing the Point Ambiguous Ending Agony of the Feet The Quiet One Disguised in Drag Unspoken Plan Guarantee Loads and Loads of Characters Race Lift Bloodier and Gorier Genre Savvy It Will Never Catch On Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Action Prologue Groin Attack A Minor Kidroduction 20 Minutes into the Future Taking the Bullet This Is Gonna Suck Death Glare Brother–Sister Incest Author Appeal Hero Antagonist Lock and Load Montage Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Hero Camp Gay The Smurfette Principle Mama Bear As the Good Book Says... Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dutch Angle It's Personal Manchild The '50s Fantasy Films Token Minority Video Credits Manipulative Bastard Protagonist Title The Oner Funny Background Event Light Is Not Good Combat Pragmatist The '60s Serious Business British Films Red Shirt Apocalypse How Only in It for the Money Mind Screw Dies Wide Open Not So Stoic Alliterative Name Casting Gag All for Nothing Hoist by His Own Petard Toplessness from the Back Empathic Environment Informed Ability Shirtless Scene Sealed Evil in a Can Drugs Are Bad Final Girl Historical In-Joke Zombie Stories Does This Remind You of Anything? Action Genre Too Dumb to Live The Ditz For the Evulz Gratuitous English Reckless Gun Usage Jerkass Ironic Echo Bar Brawl Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fainting Eyepatch of Power Bottomless Magazines Fun with Acronyms Credits Gag Adaptation Dye-Job Shout-Out The Smart Guy Only Sane Man Alpha Bitch Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Meaningful Background Event Framing Device Stepford Smiler Taking You with Me Actually Pretty Funny Coming-of-Age Story Humans Are Bastards Double Entendre The Dog Bites Back Obstructive Bureaucrat Cowboy Cop Aluminum Christmas Trees Posthumous Character All Just a Dream Knife Nut Extremely Short Timespan Meaningful Name Brutal Honesty Not So Above It All Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Index of Film Westerns I Need a Freaking Drink Evil Counterpart Hidden Depths Not What It Looks Like Jerkass Has a Point Ass Shove One-Word Title Reality Has No Subtitles Black Comedy Adaptational Heroism Historical Villain Upgrade The Dreaded Took a Level in Jerkass Annoying Younger Sibling Older Than They Look He Knows Too Much Fake Shemp Babies Ever After Evil Is Petty Despair Event Horizon Freeze-Frame Bonus Dogged Nice Guy Artistic License – Geography Villain Ball Big Brother Instinct Henpecked Husband Evil vs. Evil Hell Is That Noise Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Rich Bitch Psychological Thriller Martial Arts Movie N-Word Privileges "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dumb Blonde The Film of the Book Slasher Movie Lampshade Hanging Tap on the Head It Can Think Anyone Can Die Silent Movie Horror Comedy Time Skip Funny Foreigner As You Know Spanner in the Works Slasher Smile Death Seeker Novelization Make It Look Like an Accident Suspiciously Similar Substitute There Is No Kill Like Overkill Outrun the Fireball I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Call-Back Armor-Piercing Question Never Found the Body Gory Discretion Shot Let's Get Dangerous! Spared by the Adaptation Artistic License – Law Big Eater Word of God Leave the Camera Running Throwing Your Sword Always Works Adaptational Attractiveness Face Death with Dignity May–December Romance Red Oni, Blue Oni Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fiery Redhead Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Badass Bookworm Made of Iron Revenge Expository Hairstyle Change Not Quite Dead Daylight Horror Cruel and Unusual Death Japanese Films Show Within a Show Adult Fear Fantastic Racism Camera Abuse Auto Erotica Jump Scare Ms. Fanservice The Stoner The Great Depression The End... Or Is It? Affectionate Parody Spell My Name with an "S" The Un-Reveal Deus ex Machina The '80s Failed a Spot Check Karma Houdini Historical-Domain Character Foreshadowing Mugging the Monster Hypocritical Humor Rousing Speech Missing Mom Serial Killer Bunny-Ears Lawyer Morality Pet The Lost Lenore Our Vampires Are Different Genre Throwback Alas, Poor Villain Psycho for Hire I Have Your Wife Cain and Abel Logo Joke Deadpan Snarker A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Casanova Car Fu Straight Gay Parental Incest Race Against the Clock Loophole Abuse Bittersweet Ending What the Hell, Hero? Blackmail Abusive Parents Malevolent Masked Men All Girls Want Bad Boys Diabolus ex Machina Fatal Family Photo Science Fiction Films Real Life Honor Before Reason Defrosting Ice Queen One Steve Limit Hero of Another Story Heel–Face Turn Anti-Hero Adaptational Villainy Recycled IN SPACE! Dressing as the Enemy Insult Backfire Mystery and Detective Films Smug Snake The Faceless Beware the Nice Ones Animated Credits Opening Villain with Good Publicity Woman in White Rewatch Bonus In Medias Res B-Movie Scenery Gorn Badass in a Nice Suit The Load Television Movie Index Tagline Bring My Brown Pants Costume Porn Guns Akimbo Cool Old Guy Exactly What It Says on the Tin In the Back Left the Background Music On Mooks Mistaken for Gay Our Zombies Are Different She Cleans Up Nicely Bald of Evil Wicked Cultured Dark Is Not Evil Sir Swears-a-Lot Mexican Standoff The Bad Guy Wins "Awesome McCool" Name Death by Adaptation Take a Third Option Deconstruction Animal Motifs Based on a True Story Trailers Always Spoil Fan Disservice Reasonable Authority Figure Take That! Real Life Writes the Plot Dramatic Gun Cock Sole Survivor Blatant Lies Sequel Hook And I Must Scream I'm a Humanitarian Four-Temperament Ensemble Bolivian Army Ending Fire-Forged Friends Bare Your Midriff Noodle Incident The Brute Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! How We Got Here Pet the Dog Jerk with a Heart of Gold Green-Eyed Monster Happily Married Nice Hat Spiteful Spit Friend to All Children Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Defiant to the End And the Adventure Continues Heroes Want Redheads Room Full of Crazy Rule of Cool Dirty Coward Bi the Way